Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Steering Committee Member  

California Walkability Expert 

Prevention Institute recognizes the link between unintentional injury prevention and physical activity promotion. Manal Aboelata, Program Director at Prevention Institute was certified in 2004 by the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) California Center for Physical Activity and CalTrans as a California Walkability Expert. Several walkable community workshops have been led and co-facilitated by Ms. Aboleta. Examples of these workshops include Baldwin Park, CA, Santa Monica, CA, Downtown Los Angeles, and Echo Park, CA. 

Healthy Places Coalition    

The Healthy Places Coalition advances public health involvement in land-use and transportation planning to ensure that all neighborhoods in California promote the opportunity to live a healthy life. The Coalition consists of practitioners from the planning, public health, parks and recreation, and other related fields, community advocates, academics, and concerned individuals committed to social and health equity from around the state.

Past Projects:

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Through a contract with NHTSA, Prevention Institute provided consultation and technical assistance to public health and injury control practitioners in Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, and California (Region IX). Specific areas of focus were identifying and promoting strategies to increase seatbelt and child safety seat use and reduce the incidence of driving under the influence. Prevention Institute also facilitated information exchange between practitioners in the region by disseminating a quarterly injury prevention newsletter. Access more information about the alcohol screening and brief intervention initiative for Region IX.

Youth Educational Program (YEP)
Through a contract with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Prevention Institute worked to increase awareness and activism about traffic safety among youth of color. The purpose of YEP was to empower young people with information and tools to provide leadership in developing community solutions to reduce injuries and deaths from traffic crashes. Prevention Institute facilitated focus groups with diverse high school students, conducted interviews with youth program leaders and traffic safety practitioners, and researched best practices to produce a series of facts sheets and a toolkit for and about youth, Safe on the Streets: Cars, Safety Belts, and Drinking. The toolkit contains information, resources, and a sample presentation.

Mobilizing for a Safe USA: Focused Forums
Funded by: National Fire Protection Association/First Alert, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Children's Safety Network (CSN)
Prevention Institute held a series of focused forums across the country to bring local and regional perspectives to a nationwide effort to launch a violence and injury prevention strategy. Mobilizing for a Safe USA was a national leadership conference sponsored by a broad mix of governmental, nonprofit, and commercial agencies that took place in Atlanta in December 2001. The aim of the conference was to launch a national prevention strategy to reduce violence and injury in America. The information gathered from these focused forums is available in a report aimed at continuing to build momentum for unintentional and intentional injury prevention and to mobilize action on key strategies for violence and injury prevention.
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